Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Why do people believe propaganda? (German ‘justification’ for invading Poland 1939)" video.

  1. “Allow me to draw a comparison in order to understand the effect of learning (or the lack thereof) upon our nature. Imagine that there are people living in a cave deep underground…They have lived here from infancy, with their legs and necks bound in chains. They cannot move. All they can do is stare directly forward, as the chains stop them from turning their heads around.” “Imagine that far above and behind them blazes a great fire. Between this fire and the captives, a low partition is erected along a path, something like puppeteers use to conceal themselves during their shows. Look and you will also see other people carrying objects back and forth along the partition…Undoubtedly, such captives would consider the truth to be nothing but the shadows of the carved objects ― Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
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